607: Chapter 605 A Series of Warnings: The System Doesn't Support Idlers

As the System notification appeared, almost everyone—save for a small minority who already knew the inside story—felt their hearts tremble.

"This world... is on the verge of extinction???"

A tremendous sense of panic and crisis lingered in everyone's hearts, and major forums and the world channel were filled with heated discussion.

"No way, I just saw hope, and now you're telling me the world is about to go extinct?"

"That shouldn't be right. Although the situation is dire, no matter how strong a Specter is, it gets crushed when facing Chu Xuan, never lasting more than a minute. How exactly is it going to go extinct?"

"Is there a possibility that it's because Chu Xuan is growing too fast and is too strong, far surpassing the Specters that have appeared so far? But in reality, there are still many more terrifying Specters in the Place of Gloomy Convergence that, due to the rules, cannot break through yet..."

"What's truly urgent are those Dark Places that are constantly spreading and eroding our territory. As time passes, more and stronger Specters will invade..."

"The world's Origin is about to dry up! Just using the Mission Train to go to the Dark Places to match tasks is far from enough; that's only a defensive strategy. Counterattacking the Cangyun World is another path!"

"Since the Cangyun World dares to invade, then let's fight back. I support it! It's just a pity that only those who have ascended in Rank are qualified to go..."

"But is this path really viable? Those Martial Artists who invaded before were all highly skilled in combat, and their strength was quite extraordinary."

"As far as I know, those people were just the vanguard troops. Due to the constraints of world rules, the strongest echelon of martial powerhouses hasn't had the chance to come through the cross-world teleportation array yet."

"The overall combat power of the Cangyun World is clearly stronger than ours. This can be seen from the fact that the System notification mandates that some Rank 10 Transcendent must ascend."

"Note that this isn't a one-on-one duel! If you look closely at the System prompt, everyone who teleports over needs to complete their own exclusive tasks... Perhaps what we need to do isn't to crush the Cangyun World, but to help our own world plunder the Origin of the Cangyun World by completing these tasks..."

"This is a game of worlds and a collision of rules. Where our future leads depends on those Transcendent who ascend!"

Within just a few minutes, the topic of the upcoming counterattack against the Cangyun World had soared to the highest level of popularity, with almost everyone expressing their own views.

Through this event, most people, even if they were far from meeting the conditions to participate in the world mission, felt unprecedented pressure.

"If this world perishes, we who were born from it will also perish along with it."

"Either complete the mission and become stronger, or die in the mission. Just as Chu Xuan said, to survive, the only way is to save and strengthen ourselves..."

Many people had just returned from completing a Mission Train task and had intended to rest for a while.

But with Chu Xuan's live stream and recordings, they witnessed with their own eyes the tragic state of humanity within the S-rank Specter Domain, and coupled with the news that the world was on the verge of extinction, they were all incredibly worried about the future. They had no choice but to force themselves to summon the Mission Train again and head to those Dark Places.

However, there was a small minority who felt they had discovered a loophole.

"That's not right! If only ascended Transcendent are required to participate in world missions in the future, doesn't that mean that as long as I suppress my Rank—for example, keeping it at Rank 9 or Rank 10—I can survive with a higher probability?"

There were many similar remarks.

Some people also thought that since there would always be others taking the initiative to participate in missions, with so many tall people holding up the sky, one less or one more of them wouldn't make a difference, so it was better not to try too hard.

After all, even when voluntarily summoning the Mission Train, while one could match tasks corresponding to their own comprehensive strength, there was still a significant probability of death.

Why struggle to the death? It would be better to just lie flat and give up.

Regarding such negative remarks, someone soon began to criticize and refute them.

"People who say things like this are either stupid or foolish! No one is forcing you if you don't want to improve yourself; just hide away quietly. Why make a big fuss and affect morale?"

"Spreading such heresy is punishable! At this critical juncture of life and death, if everyone thought this way, wouldn't we all be finished?"

"Don't pay attention to these people; there will always be those who carry the burden forward."

"No one can survive by hiding; even if you don't voluntarily summon the Mission Train to go to the Dark Places, there will still be Mandatory Missions."

"Suppressing your Rank? If you dare to do that, even if you survive for a while, you will be left far behind in the future and eventually abandoned by this era..."

"I believe we can definitely save the world! In this new era, everyone has the opportunity to let their own brilliance shine!"

Some negative comments on the internet were quickly deleted, and there were even official personnel who traced the IP addresses to investigate and provide ideological education.

As for the world channel, it refreshed too quickly; without enough Mental Energy, one couldn't even manage to read the content.

Under the vigorous promotion of various official departments, major television stations, live streaming platforms, and website forums were all mobilized to call on people to take the initiative to participate in missions.

"Self-rescue and Self-strengthening" became the theme of this new era.

Under such circumstances, excluding some of the elderly, young, sick, and disabled who had luckily survived, more and more people were spontaneously summoning the Mission Train.

And the results were also very significant.

When the night faded and the next day's sunlight spilled down, the rate at which the dark mist of The Gloom was spreading in the central and southwestern regions finally slowed down.

And the dark mist in the north and the East Sea direction even stopped spreading completely, halting outside the original national borders.

When these images were presented to people through technical means, many were thrilled, as this represented that The Gloom was not invincible.

But not long after, people discovered another extremely terrifying problem.

"The number of people in the world channel has decreased again; there are now less than 300 million people left!"

"Look carefully, the value is constantly changing, sometimes increasing and sometimes decreasing... This is because people who have gone to the Place of Gloomy Convergence are not displayed in the channel!"

"But this is still too few; many people must have died in the missions!"

"Looking at it this way, could there still be people alive in those places abroad covered by The Gloom? But because it is a Dark Place everywhere, they are unable to escape here?"

"That would be too miserable; it's equivalent to one mission ending, and immediately following it is the next mission."

"Being in a Dark Place, it's fine if you can trigger a mission, as there's at least some hope of survival! The most terrifying thing is being instantly devoured by a powerful Specter before you can even trigger a mission..."

"But if anyone can survive, they will definitely be extremely powerful!"

Just as people were discussing heatedly, the System notification appeared once again.

[Notification: Part of the Dark World's suppression has been forcibly invalidated. For Transcendent within Rank 10, after each Rank up, they can obtain 5 times the Rank value in ordinary attribute points to allocate freely. That is, Rank 1 to Rank 2 yields 10 ordinary attribute points; Rank 9 to Rank 10 yields 50 ordinary attribute points.]

"Great, a favorable rule has finally appeared!"

"The higher the Rank you reach, the more attribute point rewards you get!"

[Warning! Mandatory regulation for Transcendent within Rank 10: You must complete the Rank up within the time limit; those who fail to do so will be forcibly erased! Time limit for each Rank up: Next Rank value x 1 day; i.e., a Rank 1 Transcendent leveling up to Rank 2 must complete it within 2 days; Rank 9 to Rank 10 must be completed within 10 days.]

"Good grief, this is mandatory leveling. If you don't meet the conditions, you'll be erased!"

"This is too crazy! I don't know if the appearance of this rule comes from the Dark World's suppression after the collision of rules, or because the System does not keep idlers?"

"Overall, the pros outweigh the cons! And these conditions aren't considered harsh. With the Mission Train in existence, every time we complete a matched task, we can gain significant improvements, and the speed of leveling far exceeds the mandatory requirements."

"Haha! Where are the people who said they wanted to lie flat earlier? Come out and jump around some more! I'm not going to keep talking trash with you guys; the Mission Train I summoned has already arrived!"

"But in this case, what about those elderly, young, sick, and disabled who survived? Can they only wait for death?"

"There are also some people who actually aren't good at combat. This is forcing a Gu-raising scenario; only the strong are qualified to survive..."

"When the global System first appeared, it had already given a prompt: whoever chooses to bind with the System will receive gifts from the world, but they must also make sacrifices. This was everyone's own choice back then!"

Immediately after, another System notification popped up.

[Notification: Transcendent within Rank 10 can voluntarily choose to downgrade to logistics personnel. Logistics personnel do not need to participate in Mandatory Missions, but must pay a daily spirituality value equal to 10 times their Rank. Logistics personnel can sell their results—including but not limited to cooking, R&D, pharmaceuticals, alchemy, forging, etc.—on the System Mall, or trade directly with Transcendent to obtain resources such as spirituality value. Note 1: Logistics personnel no longer enjoy daily spirituality value rewards, and each Rank up will not grant extra attribute point rewards. Note 2: Logistics personnel can consume 1,000 times their Rank in spirituality value to upgrade back to combat personnel and restore extra rewards.]

"It's out! I knew it; heaven never closes all doors. Although this world does not keep idlers, it doesn't force everyone to go to their deaths either..."

"Great, social order has collapsed, and I haven't eaten a big meal in a long time. Is there any chef who wants to downgrade to logistics personnel? I want beef bile hot pot!"

"..."

Beef bile hot pot?

Chu Xuan's mouth twitched, and he closed the mobile forum he had just opened.

He slowly stood up, his Aura vigorous. He just stretched, and as he pulled his muscles and bones, they made a cracking sound.

Over this night, Chu Xuan's strength had soared once again.

Since returning to Haicheng that night, he had immediately taken stock of the resources in his possession.

Among them, his spirituality value had reached a full 72,000 points. Not only that, the 100 Slashes within his body were all filled, and in the 3 spirit orbs, each contained 1,000 spirituality value.

The resources were incomparably abundant!

This was the greatest result of Chu Xuan's efforts over the past day, successively slaying S-rank Specters, purging the lurking Specters within the Night Watchers team, and clearing out the Resurrection Society.

Besides this, the rule fragments, even after repeatedly increasing his attributes, had still accumulated to 15 pieces.

The rule fragments had reached 17, soul crystals 102, extraordinary skill promotion scrolls 10, and 1 Wisdom Candle.

But Chu Xuan did not immediately proceed with any upgrades, because it was already past 1:30 AM, and it was time to obtain soul crystals again.

Chu Xuan entered that pitch-black space through the pit in the detention room.

This time, he obtained a full 810 soul crystals, far more than the last time, but it took more than 6 hours before he was forcibly teleported back.

"The soul crystals harvested are not fixed..."

Chu Xuan muttered to himself. If converted according to the System's contribution value, these soul crystals were equivalent to 4,050 contribution points.

This was almost an SS-Rank task evaluation.

"What exactly is that space? Why is it that only I can obtain a large amount of soul crystals, while everyone else combined has less than 400?"

Chu Xuan felt more and more that the opened different dimension was very likely related to the beam of light that appeared the day he became a Purifier.

"I don't know how much longer I can exploit this; I must cherish the opportunity and not waste it..."

Chu Xuan suppressed the heat in his heart and decided to stay here and not leave until the next world mission started.

Subsequently, with a rustle, Chu Xuan laid out all the soul crystals in front of him, totaling 902, their brilliant light simply dazzling.

He first attempted to directly upgrade to the Minor Achievement Realm through the System.

[Detected that your personal Rank has reached LV.14; your resource consumption for cultivating the Sanyuan Qi-Guiding Art has been significantly reduced.]

[You have consumed 3,000 spirituality value and 120 soul crystals; your Cultivation Technique "Sanyuan Qi-Guiding Art" has been upgraded to Minor Achievement.]

[Your Martial Realm has reached the Diyuan Realm; you have obtained 17 points of real attribute exchange quota.]

[You can consume spirituality value to convert into True Qi; 1 point of spirituality value can convert into 100 points of True Qi.]

Chu Xuan felt a slight joy in his heart. He could actually obtain more attribute exchange quota; this was something he hadn't expected, given that his Rank was already not weak.

Immediately after, he took out the Wisdom Candle, and after lighting it, a sense of clarity surged into his mind. He then began to Cultivate the martial Cultivation Technique, the Sanyuan Qi-Guiding Art, through the System.

With the assistance of the Wisdom Candle, the consumption of spirituality value increased significantly, while the consumption of soul crystals decreased instead.

[You have consumed 18,000 spirituality value and 105 soul crystals; your Cultivation Technique "Sanyuan Qi-Guiding Art" has been upgraded to Major Achievement.]

A strong gust of wind swept outward with Chu Xuan as the center. The entire detention room, built from special steel, saw its walls constantly caving in and twisting, emitting creaking sounds of "lament".

"Sanyuan Qi-Guiding Art, I have reached the Tianyuan Realm!"

Chu Xuan's gaze was like lightning, and a wisp of white Qi lingered in his mouth. As he gently exhaled, a heatwave surged, causing the indoor temperature to rise sharply, and the steel walls turned red, faintly showing signs of melting.

[Your Martial Realm has reached the Tianyuan Realm; you have obtained 40 points of real attribute exchange quota.]